March 31

“Everything that raises our personal standard of thought and purpose, everything that brings us nearer to the stature of the completed one in Christ, increases our power for good, and makes us more and more a power in the world about us. When we crave the privilege of doing for others, it is well for us to realise the privilege of being for others.”

“We can never really benefit anybody by doing wrong on his behalf, and the truest and surest way in which we can serve our fellow-men is, not so much to do anything for them, but to be the very truest, purest, noblest beings we know how.”

Miss COBBE

“As there can be no goodness of life without goodness of principle, so neither can there be any goodness of principle, that deserves the name, without its being shown in goodness of life.”

DR ARNOLD

March 30

“Certainly, in our own little sphere, it is not the most active people to whom we owe the most. Among the common people whom we know, it is not necessarily those who are busiest, not those who, meteor-like, are ever on the rush after some visible charge and work. It is the lives, like the stars, which simply pour down on us the calm light of their bright and faithful being, up to which we look, and out of which we gather the deepest calm and courage. It seems to me that there is reassurance here for many of us who seem to have no chance for active usefulness. We can do nothing for our fellow-men. But still it is good to know that we can be something for them; to know (and this we may know surely) that no man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.”

PHILLIPS BROOKS

“Always the important question is, and ultimately we must realise that it is, not what we do or what we know, but what we are. Blessed, most blessed they who waken wide-eyed and early to the fact.”

KNOX LITTLE